Some spectator and press shots from the early days at Drag City…
My early Tyco mechanical lap counter, before graduating to the digital timer. This looked good and worked well, although I soon realized I needed a timer in order to race during the enforced solo time as the pandemic erupted nationwide.
ABOVE: A pair of GTOs face off for a quarter-mile blast; a rare ’69 AMX against a loaded ’69 Camaro SS/RS; a pair of Chargers face off for the road course; ’68 Nova SS VS ’65 Mustang; a “barn find” brawl; ’41 Willys against a ’58 Plymouth
This was in the beginning-January/February 2020-when I was turning a large room in my basement into “Drag City” and was still hoping to have someone drop by and compete with me…plans that were scrapped as the Wuhan Flu began to ravage the land, which forced me to adapt to solo racing…a story I will explain in detail as this blog progresses.
This was the original Tyco “Turbo Boost 300” set from my childhood; I have come to refer to this as “Drag City” Mk. I. At this time I was buying and building cars at the rate of roughly 3-4 per week.
A mostly stock ’55 Bel-Air catches a ’63 Riviera in the turn: those cheesy homemade signs of Bic ball-point pen on construction paper were what 11 year old me thought would look cool scotch-taped to the the guard rails!
